Dee E. Andrews linkholds a Ph.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania
and has taught at the University
of California at San Diego,
the University of Pennsylvania,
and Princeton University. She
is currently Professor of History
at California State University,
East Bay, and co-convener of
the Bay Area Seminar in Early
American History and Culture.
She is the author of The
Methodists and Revolutionary
America, 1760-1800: The Shaping
of an Evangelical Culture.
Among the various courses she
teaches, "Benjamin Franklin
and His World" is one of
her favorites.
For more information on Benjamin
Frankclin check out our weblinks
below
Political Cartoon from 1764
"The
German Bleeds" This cartoon,
circulated after the 1763 Conestoga
massacre, criticizes the Quakers
for their support of Native
Americans at the expense of
German and Scots-Irish backcountry
settlers. http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=327
Native American-European contact
during the Colonial Era A
cross-curricular lesson plan
that explores the nature of
the first encounters between
Native Americans and Europeans
in colonial Pennsylvania. http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=91